Thank you, Chubler_XL and Alister, for replying. I've tried both but hp-ux is having some difficulties.
For Chubler_XL's code, sed tells me:
And for Alister's example:
I can understand Alister's explanation (that's been the clearest I've found about looking for the newline character), but I'm afraid I don't have enough sed experience to troubleshoot its different flavors among operating systems.
Anyway, if you've got a guess about what's making hp-ux cranky, I'd appreciate it. I'll keep experimenting myself.
can't figure out a way to delete multiple empty lines but keep single empty lines in a file, file is like this
#cat file
1
2
3
4
5
6
-
What I want is
1
2 (6 Replies)
I am searching a dhcpd.conf to find the hardware ethernet match, then once the match is found delete just the line above it. For example:
testmachine.example {
hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
fixed address 192.168.1.100;
next-server 192.168.1.101;
filename "linux-install/pxelinux.0";
}... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need help with using an awk or sed filter on the below line
ALTER TABLE "ACCOUNT" ADD CONSTRAINT "ACCOUNT_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("ACCT_ID") USING INDEX PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1) TABLESPACE "WMC_DATA" LOGGING ENABLE
Look for... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to write a sed script which from
batiato:
batiato/giubbe:
pip_b.2.txt
pip_b.3.txt
pip_b.3mmm.txt
bennato:
bennato/peterpan:
123.txt
consoli:
pip_a.12.txt
daniele: (2 Replies)
trying to use sed in finding a matching pattern in a file then deleting
the next line only .. pattern --> <ad-content>
I tried this but it results are not what I wish
sed '/<ad-content>/{N;d;}' akv.xml > akv5.xml
ex,
<Celebrant2First>Mickey</Celebrant2First>
<ad-content>
Minnie... (2 Replies)
why does sed 's/.* //' show the last word in a line
and
sed 's/ .*//' show the first word in a line? How is that blank space before or after the ".*" being interpreted in the regex?
i would think the first example would delete the first word and the next example would delete the second... (1 Reply)
I have the following file:
line1
line2
MATCH
line3
line4
I need to find the pattern, "MATCH" and delete the line before and after MATCH. So the result should be
line1
MATCH
lline4
I have to use sed because it is the only utility that is common across my environments. I... (1 Reply)
All,
I am trying to read in a variable and search a file then delete based on that string, but i want to match exact word.
This works but it matches all, i don't want to match anthing that contains the string, just the exact string.
sed -i "/$feedname/d" file
I tried
sed... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a file that I want to be able to insert a new line before every instance of a regex. I can get it to do this for each line that contains the regex, but not for each instance.
Contents of infile:
Test this 1...
Test this 2...
Test this 3... Test this 4... Test this... (2 Replies)
Hi guys I am trying to figure out how to match a pattern with a regex up to a full blank line. I will show you what I mean with this example:
example A
movie name: ted
movie name: TMNT
movie name: Jinxed
example B
movie names:
Gravity
Faster
Turbo
song titles:
dont
hello
problem (8 Replies)